Danny Delaney

Danny Delaney, who died in April 2020, was a Gaelic footballer and administrator from Stradbally in County Laois. He played for Laois and for Stradbally during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, winning the Laois Intermediate Football Championship with Stradbally in 1959 and 1963, and he also played hurling for the Ratheniska team. In 1973 he was elected vice-chairman of the Laois county board under Sean Ramsbottom, and he served as chairman of the Stradbally club. He died at the Maryborough Centre in Portlaoise after contracting COVID-19, and his widow later spoke on national television about his final months.